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DEVISE FOR LOADING AND UNLOADING VESSELS. No. 367,061.

I EEEREE FFQEE y UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICEo GEORGE W. PRICE, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRD TO JOSEPH E. FOARD, OE SAME PLAGE.

DEVICE FOR LO'ADINGAND UNLOADING VESSELS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 367,061, dated July 26, 1887.

Application filed March 10, 1887. Serial No. 230.341l (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.' bow in place on the track when adjusted, and Beit known that I, GEORGE XV. PRICE, of when used in this way the set-screw a* may the city of Baltimore and State of Maryland, be dispensed with. v have invented a new and useful Improvement It will beobserved that the bucket when 5 in Devices for Loading and Unloading Vespropelled runs sidewise, so as to discharge its sels, ot' which the following is a full descripload by tipping in a direction crosswise ofthe tion. y track....The object of this is to enable the In the drawings, Figure l shows a portion bucket to dumpl into the cars D in the direcof the track upon which the carriage travels tion of their length. The track upon which 63 ro with the carriage seated thereon, the bucket these cars run is usually placed upon the with its bail, the projections to which the wharf, so that the cars will run under the latch is pivoted, the looped trigger for tripbridge or track A. To dump a bucket autoping t-he latch, and the bow-piece attached to matically while ruiming in this way, it is necthe track, against which the trigger comes in essary that the latch which holds it in place 65 I5 Contact to lift the latch. Fig. 2 illustrates a should be as nearly central as possible, and side viewof the parts shown'in Eig. l, showthat the trigger when operated will lift the ing also the track in section. Fig 3 isa view latch at once and not push it aside.y To acof the track with its end attachments, the complish this, I attach to the bail E of the bucket hanging thereto, and also in dotted bucket the two lugs or projections c 6,*Fig. l, 7o 2o lines the bucket tripped and in the act of and arrange them to stand backward and updumping its load. r ward. The trigger E is then pivoted between This device is an improvement upon the inthese lugs bythe pin e. By this arrangement ventiondescribed in a specification heretofore the trigger is in a position nearly central with iiled on the 16th day of March, 1886, for an the bail and a line drawn lengthwise through 75 25 improvement in apparatus forloading and the bucket. The loop H is constructed of discharging vessels, which said application lightlmetal and formed so as to pass around was allowed on the 3d 4day of August, 1886; the hook of the carriage B and the ring at the and it consistsin the construction and arrangetop of the bail F. The two ends of the loop nient of the dump-ing or trippingdevice, are riveted or otherwise fastened to the trig- '8c 3o whereby greater certainty is attained indu mp.- ger at h. 4 y

ing the bucket to discharge its load. The operation of the device is as follows: ln the drawings, A represents the track The adjustable bow is placed at any point on along which the carriage is impelled by the the track where the dump is desired. The rope; B, the carriage and hook; C, the bucket; carriagehaving the bucket suspended runs 85 35 D, the cars into which the load is dumped along the trackimpelled by the rope until the from the bucket. The track may be conupper end of the -loop reaches the nearest end structed with a flange, as shown at a', and of the bow a5, the end of which is in the form nponthis flange I have placed the bow-shaped of an inclined plane. As the carriage propiece a. This piece may be made of any sui'tgresses the loop is depressed, and as the trig- 9o 4o able material, having its ends formed to clasp ger is central the lift is straight up and the the fiange a', as shown at a3, and is secured in trigger is released justat the point where the its place by the set-screw at. Any other dump is desired. By the arrangement of the means for clamping the bow may be used, as loop around the ring and hook these parts are the object is to make it adjustable. In order escaped, at the same time leaving plenty of 95 45 to secure' lightness, I prefer to construct the room to'avoid the bail as the loop descends.

bow of thin iron or other metal and pivot at The bucket is of the class which is tipped or near its middle the latch or thumb-button by its own load when the trigger is released. a5. The construction of this button is such What I claim is that it may be turned up in contact with the l. In a loading and discharging apparatus, ico 5o bottom of the track to stiften the bow. It also. the track A and the bowshaped piece a5, made y serves the additional purpose of fixing the adjustable upon the track, in combination with thc bucket C, buil F, having the projcc tions e', the trigger E, pivotecl to thc projcctions e', thc loop H, and thc bucket-carrier, substantially as dcscribcd.

5 2. In n loading and discharging apparatus, the combination of thc bucket, the trigger E, pivotcd centrally with the bail and bucket,

and the loop H, passing around thc bail-ring and cnrringc-hook and secured at its cnds to thc trigger E, substantially as described.

GEORGE XV. PRICE.

Witnesses:

FRANK B. SLoAN, A. S. BARROLL. 

